Chinatown NYC: Manhattan’s Chinatown Struggles for Survival

The real problem of Manhattan’s Chinatown isn’t that its streets are crowded. It’s that its businesses aren’t crowded enough.

Despite the seemingly endless array of purse, jewelry and clothing salesmen in Manhattan’s Chinatown, longtime businesses are struggling to make it with increasing rents and lack of loyal clientele.

With other Chinatowns in Brooklyn and Queens, Chinatown’s survival in Manhattan is in question. Many Fuzhou immigrants are living in places like Sunset Park and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn and Jackson Heights and Flushing in Queens, where they can have a taste of…….. read more